History

Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement.

Just as the Sanders campaign didn't arise in a vacuum, there's no reason to expect it will leave a vacuum behind it.

Fisher had not actually been denied admission because she is white, but rather because of her inadequate academic achievements.

He's the latest in a long line of American demagogues but has come closest to the White House. That makes him the most dangerous of them all.

All historical analogies are flawed, but something resembling fascism could arise with the catalyst of an authoritarian leader like Donald Trump.

To fight discrimination in Mississippi, out-of-state allies should strengthen their ties to the state, not sever them.

Some disturbing historical parallels to Hitler's rise to power explain why Donald Trump could become president.

White supremacy is a conglomerate forged through fear, colonialism, imperialism and anti-Blackness, not through the purity of blood.

It's unsettling, to say the least, that the UN should lend its facilities to an initiative equating BDS with Nazism.

US policies related to Indigenous peoples, though often termed “racist,” are rarely depicted as what they are.